The Third Annual Latino Congresso started today at the Bonaventure Hotel.. John McCain and Barak Obama was originally listed as speaker, then "invited" and in the end their names were not on the final program at all.

Spanish Media was there, as was KTLA and the Associated Press.

The event opened with the leaders of the various groups outlining their agendas. The two main issues were Latino Voter Registration and Immigration. The have committed Five Million Dollars to getting Latinos registered to vote for the presidential election.

The speakers seldom used the term "Latino" constantly referring to "our community, our country, our world." One speaker noted that "People do not say 'Latinos do not work,' they say 'they work and they take our jobs.'" The only problem with that, she claimed, was that "We are only taking the low paying ones."

Another speaker claimed "This is our country, we built it."

The first speaker stated that there were three challenges that any Presidential Candidate must address to win the Latino Vote - 1. Provide access to the candidate to Latino Leaders, 2. Make substantive proposals and 3. Make financial investments.

Nativo Lopez of MAPA spoke and said he new president must provide immigration reform within his first 100 days in office.

The leader of MALDEF spoke and said the new president must do four things his first 30 days in office.

1. Appoint a head of Homeland Security who will commit to not involving ICE in the 2010 census. 2. Sign and executive order stopping neighborhood raids. 3.Stop all 287G cooperation of local law enforcement with ICE 4. Appoint a Secretary of State who will work cooperatively with Mexico and Latin American Countries.

Other speakers called for the president to address "income inequality, criminalization of our communities, the war in Iraq and Global Warming.

They demanded an end to "indiscriminate attacks" on "their community and the end to the use of the term "illegal immigrant" as "no immigrant is illegal."

Outside a group of Americans waved the American Flag and help "Stop Illegal Immigration" signs. There were aggressively attacked by a group of foul mouthed young males on bicycles who tried to grasp their signs, and knocked over a flag. One was latter arrested for battery on an 80 year old American woman. (The "Elder Attackers" bicycle gang?)

No, you had little or nothing to do with it. The USA was created and built on the east coast primarily by English settlers, starting in 1607 and leading to a revolutionary war and new nation from round 1776 to 1790. The formative events of the USA took place a long, long way from the American southwest, let alone California. And it took a long, long time to make a trip from one place to the other.

At the same time, you and your ethnic group were building Mexico and points south, with, even then, only a few thousand of you scattered around what would become part of the US later.

Few if any Mexicans were anywhere near the creation and building of the USA, and they played no part at all until a few thousand came into the US with the new territory after the Mexican War.

The pro-illegal activists love saying how Mexicans built L.A. and the rest of the southwest.

The population of L.A. was less than 2,000 at the time of the Mexican-American war. It was more of a village or an outpost than a city. One-hundred years later, after it had been taken over and built up by Americans, its population had grown to 800 times that size.

I like Mexicans, just not this many of them. I grew up in L.A. in the 50s and there were very few here, maybe 3 in my Elementary School and I was friends with all 3.
Today most of my friends are Hispanic, but what they are doing is wrong, on all accounts this is wrong. Laws are something to sidestep.

I was incensed yesterday when I read the USC guy saying that the Feds will not investigate voter fraud by illegal aliens. I could not understand why all the comments in the local papers were against illegal aliens but we kept voting for Mexicans.

These are not poor Mexicans, they own businesses, they employ only Mexicans, they dont pay any taxes, they will screw (businesswise) anyone that is stupid enough to let them. And they all own property down in Mexico where they go on vacation because they think Mexico is such a beautiful country.

The dishwasher next door to me owns property throughout Mexico. His brothers complain about how cheap he is and tell me how he just sold one of his properties for $30,000. They pay cash for their new cars. They are living 3 families to a house.

Another Illegal tells me how he wants to make money like Americans. He caught the Real Estate ride up and I know he owns properties throughout Los Angeles that he is renting out. He has a very nice house in the better part of town that would make most people envy him.

Another Illegal saw the writing on the wall that Americans didnt want them here. He built himself a restaurant in Mexico and moved back home.

Another Hispanic, I dont know his status, just bought 15 acres in Mexico and is having someone build his hacienda for $20 a day.

Thank You LadyCalif, If only the rest of the country could see what is going on.

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